Jay Weber Show transcript 2-5-25
We’ve been talking about the brawl in Washington DC over this very scummy and secretive USAID agency.
So, no one in this audience will be surprised to hear that 97 percent of political donations from USAID employees went to Kamala Harris and the democrats last election- and only scraps to Donald Trump.
Employees at this agency gave over 241-thousand dollars, collectively, to the Kamala Harris campaign...and who knows how much additional money they gave to third party groups, as well.
Meanwhile, a very few donors gave about a thousand dollars, total, to Donald Trump. That’s it. And this just goes to prove, of course, that this really has become the ‘heart’ of the democrat’s money laundering operation in dc-
In fact, to their credit, ABC ran a report describing the scene when DOGE officials ‘raided’ the DC offices on Monday-and it included a staffer describing how workers frantically ran around and pulled down all of their pride flags and leftist propaganda...and books...and tried to hide them.
Now-
Even you democrats in the audience: does that sound like a group of people who are doing their jobs and honestly focused on their mission? Or does it sound like a group of people who have been up to no-good, and know they are about to be caught?
This was the ‘executive branch’. This was the president who is ultimately in control of this agency- having some of his people visit a federal office building- and its employees acted like they were cutting cocaine for El Chapo....and characterized this as a ‘raid’.
Now tell me how ‘honest’ and ‘important’ this agency is.
Both Elon Musk and Marco Rubio said this week- we only wanted to ensure that the taxpayer funding that they were sending out was aligning with president trump’s standard of ‘being helpful to America’.... And they reacted like we were the enemy: blocked us from getting into the building, etc.
That’s what set off the real alarm bells and led to the discovery that this office is only a leftist money-laundering operation...in which they are basically stealing u-s taxpayer dollars to fund their leftist causes. Here in the u-s and globally.
Sect. Rubio sat for an interview yesterday and fox, and again further described how the employees of this agency view themselves as ‘accountable to no one’...and not even really ‘working on behalf of America’.
That’s incredible: we’ve got a taxpayer funded agency that just- went rogue.
It has its budget approved by congress and-by law- is supposed to be accountable to the president and the state department- at least-
And over the years- the left-wing political operatives who have been put in charge of it- like Samantha Power under Biden- have convinced themselves and the staffers that they are a ‘land unto themselves’. They don’t even, really, represent the US govt or US taxpayers. That’s not really their mission.
What?
How could it have even come to this?
We’ve seen versions of ‘unaccountable govt agencies over the years- but never at this level. You get paid by US taxpayers. You -exclusively-dole out taxpayer money. And you don’t think any of us have a right to see or know what you are doing? Not even the president or congress?
What the hell???
and you can ignore the democrat and left-wing whining, my friends. I absolutely ignore it. Because they want to insist that this is terrible. It is Donald Trump who has gone rogue or is out of bounds. This isn’t how democracy works, etc.
Folks: this action by Trump and Musk? It is- honestly- bringing this agency back under democratic control.
Sincerely. If you want to see ‘democracy in action’ it is what trump and musk are finally doing-even if it is long, long overdue. It’s not what the democrats are doing-which is lying and obstructing.
As Sect Rubio has been saying: a lot of the functions- the more genuine ‘foreign aid’ functions of this agency are going to continue- but not through this agency. It must be killed off- because-as Elon Musk has stated: it cannot be reformed. It’s too far gone. Too rancid-to the core.
And so, reforming it and bringing it more fully under the wing of the state department should be the-minimum- goal for republicans, here.
It’d be great to kill it off all-together, but there are some legal questions related to that, and it would likely take congressional action.
So, this is also something republicans should be trying to tuck into one of their reconciliation bills. If not the first two- to start off the trump admin here- wait a year and tuck it into next years. But kill it off. Get it done.
The legal morass here is, apparently: yes, JFK started this agency by executive order-but then-
So, at the very least: Marco Rubio can make changes, fire staffers, etc.
So, he, Musk, and Trump’s lawyers should do everything that they are can-using that route-even as they move to kill the entire thing off-if they can.
Because Trump’s decision to abolish this organization will be challenged in court- and there’s no guarantee he will win.
But this is-not- an independent non-governmental agency. Therefore, it does fall under ‘someone’s authority. The exec department and the state department- at the very least.
And to be clear: the executive branch-is-the state department. It falls under the president’s control just like every other govt agency does.
Which brings us to this ‘truth’- and the response to all the Chuck Schumer/democrat whining and bloviating we’ve been hearing. It’s also the response to the snotty labor unions who insist ‘Trump can’t do this’.
The ’truth’ is this: if a president-
If ‘the executive’ as our constitution lays it out- cannot control his own agencies, personnel and managers- well then- we don’t have a democracy or an executive branch- and elections mean nothing.
Trump is ‘engaging in democracy’ here. Not the democrats who are trying to keep their secretive, deep state grift going.
To use the snotty, over-worn phrase that the left loves to use: actually, this is what democracy looks like. So, sit down and shut up, Chuck Schumer. Tammy Baldwin, etc.
(i almost said Gwen Moore, but she’s too busy tutoring illegals in how to avoid ice and stay in this country. Are you aware of that, one?)
She’s one of numerous congressional democrats who have been caught distributing fliers and holding seminars for the illegals in their districts: here’s how you avoid ice and deportation. Gwen’s engaged in that
I wonder how many of her constituents who are losing out on jobs to illegal aliens know about that. And how they’d feel about that. Because it’s scummy...and more than that- illegal.
These dem lawmakers are breaking the law with these actions...and if Trump and Noem really wanted to rattle their cages- they’d ask the dept. of justice to charge a few of them.
Wouldn’t that be fun?
But- this USAID scandal is huge.
I know that Karoline Leavitt and Joni Ernst and some others are detailing some of the ludicrous waste and fraud that has been occurring here-
But they still aren’t touching on the ‘worst frauds’ and the ‘real harm’ that this agency has been doing.
For example- Monday, Leavitt described some of the unapproved grants and waste:
Something called a ‘trans-racial transplant’ for Liz Warren so she can really be Cherokee...
I made that last one up.
But...okay-there’s that level of fraud and abuse-but then there’s the far more serious activities of this agency: the main activities-
Which were funding tens of billions of dollars to bogus NGOs, who would then filter the money out to activist causes and corrupt VIPs and politicians who would abuse the taxpayers yet another way.... etc.
This is far more than ‘promoting DEI globally’. This is running a massive money-laundering machine for the left after stealing tens of billions of dollars from the u-s taxpayers every year-and only pretending that you were ‘doing good’ with it.
That! It is true that voters need to hear.
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audio version of the segment here > USAID is nothing more than a slush fund for the deep state
